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Are We The One? Launched!

Are we the one? now on at Artshouse, Melbourne.. Get your comfy shoes on and walk!

05:31 PM 18th Feb 2016

Re-Future talk in South Africa

About to do a talk here in South Africa with Angus Hervey as part of my PIAD/Refuture residency .. FLYER HERE

12:58 PM 10th Oct 2015

Anthropocence Slam Presentation

Join our panel of researchers in a lively discussion where they each use an object to communicate the Anthropocene on a human, every day scale

The human capacity to alter the biological and physical systems of the earth has provoked a proposal for a new geological epoch: the Anthropocene.

The fundamental relation between humans and the environment is the crucial problem of our time. There is a political and cultural urgency embedded in issues such as climate change, global warming, sustainable energy, ocean acidification, coral degradation, water scarcity and pollution.

At this event we welcome Professor Libby Robin to introduce Queensland to the idea of the Anthropocene Slam. Libby argues for the importance of objects as material provocateurs in the quest to communicate the Anthropocene.

Presenters will use anything from a seashell to a water glass or an iPhone to comment on the Anthropocene, ensuring the ‘slam' is engaging, entertaining, interactive and - most importantly - thought provoking.DATE:Thursday, 29th October 2015

PresentersProfessor Libby Robin FAHA is an environmental historian at Australian National University and the National Museum of Australia. She is also Affiliated Professor at KTH Stockholm, and has worked to develop the environmental humanities internationally. She was part of the team in the first ‘Anthropocene Slam’ in Madison, Wisconsin, in November 2014, and CLIMARTE in Melbourne May 2015.

Dr Keith Armstrong, splits his time between being a Senior Research Fellow at QUT and an actively practicing freelance new media artist. His research focuses on how scientific and philosophical ecologies can influence the design and conception of networked, interactive media artworks. His latest show, Uncanny_Intimacy opened at the Object Gallery, Australian Design Centre in August 2015.

Dr Jodi Frawley is a DECRA research fellow in the Creative Industries Faculty at QUT. She is working on a history of estuaries and fishing communities along the east coast of Australia. In 2014, along with Professor Iain McCalman, she co-edited Rethinking Invasion Ecologies from the Environmental Humanities (Routledge).

Professor Joan Leach convenes the science communication program at The University of Queensland. Her recent ARC-funded research with Dr Maureen Burns is on popular science since the 1960s. Her research centres on public engagement with science, medicine and technology and she has been active in the Australian government's recent initiatives toward “Inspiring Australia.”

Professor Geoffrey Lawrence is Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Chair of the College of Experts at the Global Change Institute, The University of Queensland. He is considered to be one of the world leaders in social science-based agri-food research. Geoffrey has been a government appointee on the Lake Eyre Basin Scientific Advisory Panel and is currently President of the International Rural Sociology Association.

Dr Dolly MacKinnon is a Senior Lecturer in Early Modern History at The University of Queensland, and an Associate Investigator with the ARC Centre for Excellence for the History of Emotions (The University of Queensland/The University of Western Australia). Her research background spans history and music, and focuses on analysing the mental, physical and auditory landscapes of past cultures.

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LTNS at VU's Centre of Cultural Diversity and Wellbeing

Our next LTNS event is at Victoria University’s Centre of Cultural Diversity and Wellbeing - celebrating the completion of their new Social Technologies Lab at the Footscray Nicholson campus on Friday, 27 September, 2013.

The Social Technologies Lab is an innovative new facility with a large custom-built visualisation screen designed to view, generate and analyse social research data in new ways.

There will be two sets of activities on this day – you can choose to take part in either, or both.

1. The Launch

The launch itself will take place at 4.00pm at the Social Technology Lab (Telford Building, Room T109). Dean of the VU College of Arts, Associate Professor Bronwyn Cran, will launch the Social Technology Lab. CCDW acting director, Professor Michele Grossman, will host the launch. Refreshments provided.

2. Walk and workshop

Beginning at 10.00am on the launch day, we will host a unique technology-powered workshop and walk led by media artist Dr Keith Armstrong from Queensland University of Technology, as part of the NBN-funded Long Time No See project (http://community.long-time-no-see.org/).

After an initial orientation workshop, participants will take an walk through Footscray guided by a smartphone “app”, taking photographs as they go. The walk aims to explore pathways into “emergent ways of existing in this world through poetic actions and relationships that animate a sense of care.” Each walker’s journey will be mapped onto an online map that the group will examine afterwards. Examples of these map will be showcased at the 4.00pm launch.

Places for the walk and workshop are limited to 15, and will be allocated in order of RSVPs. Note that you must have a smartphone (Android or iPhone) to take part, and the ability to download the app. Help to source and download the app will be available on the day.

Please send your RSVP to Polly Probert (polly.probert@vu.edu.au) by….(date), stating if you would like to attend the launch only, the walk/workshop only, or both.

Great Review of Long Time No See appears..

Night Rage Launches

Looking forward to the luanch of our project Night Rage tomorrow at at Isea2013 at 6.30pm. Here are some preliminary pics taken skillfully by Sydney artist/photographer Alex Wisser. The piece is all about the night, nocturnality and the very edge of darkness, so these pics are positively glowing - your eyes will take a minute or two to start to see this .. so be patient ! (The rapid prototyped robotic tracking systems designed built by Mike Candy will this time remain invisible) - as the piece very much hovers on the very edge of pure darkness. Lawrence English, Michael Candy, Luke Lickfold and I hope you enjoy it - see it in the Vicki Sowry curated Anat Australia show synapse a Selection on the 3rd floor of the Sydney Powerhouse. Runs daily till 14th July.

Funding Success!

Funding Success: Today I was awarded an ANAT Synapse Art Science Residency with the Australian Wildlife Conservancy! The press release stated: The Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) is pleased to announce the successful recipients of the 2012 Synapse Residency program – a core element of the Synapse initiative of the Australia Council of the Arts and ANAT, which has enabled collaboration between artists and scientists since 2004. The Synapse initiative supports creative partnerships between scientists and artists through the residency program, a database of international art/science collaborations, an archived discussion list and the Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage program, which supports longer-term partnerships between artists and scientists in academic research settings. ANAT, in continuing its commitment to artistic innovation, is thrilled to announce that the following Australian artists have been awarded Synapse residencies for 2012:

Keith Armstrong (QLD) + Australian Wildlife Conservancy (VIC, SA, NSW)Australia has the highest mammal extinction rate in the world – not something to be proud of. To halt this decline, the Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC) acquires high ecological-value land, establishes sanctuaries and actively manages the land through feral animal control, weed eradication, fire management and the translocation of threatened species. This approach – practical land management informed by strong science – has at its heart an interdisciplinary focus that sits happily with one of Australia’s most established and successful artists, Keith Armstrong. Through a career spanning two decades, as well as his work as Senior Research Fellow at the Queensland University of Technology, Armstrong has focused on art-science and ecology-based collaborations with scientists, musicians, dancers, critical theorists and performers. With the AWC’s South-West Region Chief Scientist, Matt Hayward, he will explore ways of shifting cultural thinking to generate broad-based actions to reverse the decline of Australian habitat health and diversity.

03:24 AM 17th Nov 2012

Finitude Now Showing in Beijing!

Just back from a successful opening of Finitude (v03) , at "Information, Ecology, Wisdom" - The 3rd Art and Science International Exhibition and Symposium, Beijing, China at the National Museum of Science and Technology. Nov1-30th 2012

12:49 AM 6th Jul 2012

Finitude to Show in Major Beijing Exhibition

Finitude V3 has been chosen to show in the prestigous "Information, Ecology & Wisdom ', 3rd Art and Science International Exhibition and Symposium, National Science Museum, Beijing, China, November 2012.

Organised by Tsinghua University and China Science & Technology Museum, the 3rd Art and Science International Exhibition and Symposium will open at China Science & Technology Museum (Beijing, China) from Nov. 1st to 30th, 2012.

Quoted from invite letter..

"The 3rd Exhibition is themed at “information, ecology and wisdom”, and is targeted at collecting the most advanced research achievements in contemporary international art and science, and probing into the ultimate ideal and spirit of human beings from perspectives of information science, life science and ecological science, with the carriers of art aesthetics, biological information technology and ecological wisdom, thus exploring the unknown and creating future with brand new thinking modes and methods.Your work will be exhibit from 1st to 30th November 2012."

Interview With Me in Realtime Out

Australia Council Broadband Arts Initiative Won

Our new project – ‘Long Time, No See?’, an online and installation artwork where the public generates a vision for Australia's long-term future was awarded a prestigious Broadband Arts Initiative Award. This project connects with various communities at early National Broadband Network release sites. In collaboration with Lubi Thomas, Gavin Sade, Roger Dean, Tony Fry and Linda Carroli, and partnership with the Queensland University of Technology.

11:58 PM 21st Mar 2012

Anat Synapse Art Science Residency Won

Today I was awarded an ANAT Synapse Art Science Residency with the Australian Wildlife Conservancy! The press release stated:

The Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT) is pleased to announce the successful recipients of the 2012 Synapse Residency program – a core element of the Synapse initiative of the Australia Council of the Arts and ANAT, which has enabled collaboration between artists and scientists since 2004. The Synapse initiative supports creative partnerships between scientists and artists through the residency program, a database of international art/science collaborations, an archived discussion list and the Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage program, which supports longer-term partnerships between artists and scientists in academic research settings. ANAT, in continuing its commitment to artistic innovation, is thrilled to announce that the following Australian artists have been awarded Synapse residencies for 2012:

Keith Armstrong (QLD) + Australian Wildlife Conservancy (VIC, SA, NSW)Australia has the highest mammal extinction rate in the world – not something to be proud of. To halt this decline, the Australian Wildlife Conservancy (AWC) acquires high ecological-value land, establishes sanctuaries and actively manages the land through feral animal control, weed eradication, fire management and the translocation of threatened species. This approach – practical land management informed by strong science – has at its heart an interdisciplinary focus that sits happily with one of Australia’s most established and successful artists, Keith Armstrong. Through a career spanning two decades, as well as his work as Senior Research Fellow at the Queensland University of Technology, Armstrong has focused on art-science and ecology-based collaborations with scientists, musicians, dancers, critical theorists and performers. With the AWC’s South-West Region Chief Scientist, Matt Hayward, he will explore ways of shifting cultural thinking to generate broad-based actions to reverse the decline of Australian habitat health and diversity.

11:58 PM 21st Mar 2012

Water Conference Speaker

I will be presenting tomoorow on the Waterwheel project - presented for the Symposium 'Water Issues Relating to Environmental Landscape Sustainability’ – 22 March 2012 – International Water Day, Convened by the Horticulture, Landscape & Environment Research Unit of Higher School of Agronomical Sciences of Chott Meriem, IRESA, Sousse University – Tunisia.

“Time is change, time is finitude. Humans are a finite species. Every decision we make today brings that end closer, or alternatively pushes it further away. Nothing can be neutral”. Fry, T 2010

SHORT STATEMENT: Finitude (Mallee: Time) v01 is a major new media art/sculptural/sound hybrid to be premiered at the Mildura Palimpsest. Acknowledging that we as a species are finite, the work re-positions ‘time left’ as a plastic medium that we can each choose to ‘give to’ or ‘take away’ from. Resting on a motel room bed with a semi-transparent touch screen above them, participants influence 3D imagery, the movement of dioramas glimpsed through the screen and an immersive soundscape.

The REMNANT/EMERGENCY Artlab has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council, its arts funding and advisory body in collaboration with QUT Creative Industries, the UTS Research Centres for Contemporary Design Practices and Human-Centred Technology Design, Walkabout Wildlife Park and many others.Facebook - http://tiny.cc/xvh0n Twitter - www.twitter.com/remnant_artlab

12:18 AM 29th Sep 2010

Site Works Presentation

I was invited as a Keynote Speaker to Siteworks at Australian painter Arthur Boyds old property Budnandon and Riversdale - 3 hours south of Sydney on the Shoalhaven River. The forum is an interdisciplnary investigation into art/science and ecology.

04:44 PM 21st Jul 2010

Artlab Process Blog

I have begun adding lots of background information to the Artlab Blog - leading up to a series of meetings in Sydney this July to develop our second lab event (November 2010) - considering the rehousing of the bats that are soon to be moved from the Sydney Botanical Gardens.

04:38 PM 15th Jul 2010

Mediations Biennial Artists Announced

The Mediataions Biennial we will be showing has been announced - our work Knowmore (House of Commons) will be shown alongside international artists such as Jeffrey Shaw, Luc Courchesne, Masaki Fujihata, Eduardo Kac, Christa Sommerer + Laurent Mignonneau, George Legrady and Ken Feingold. See full list here.

05:18 PM 19th May 2010

The Remnant V1 Opening!

The Remnant v1 interactive installation to be launched on 28th May with opening on Sunday 30th May at 11am at the venue - Location details and press releases now available on the web page for download.

06:21 PM 23rd Mar 2010

Artlab Success

We have been awarded an Australia Council Artlab - working with Natalie Jeremijenko at NYU, Tony Fry, Scanz New Zealand, James Muller, Leah Barclay, QUT Creative Industries, The Edge, and a host of partners :)

09:54 PM 1st Mar 2010

New Projects Emerging

2010 looks like a good year! I have received an invite for the 2010 Mediations Biennial in Poznan Poland and have been asked to develop a major interactive Festival Work, amongst many others!

09:42 PM 5th Nov 2009

Practice Led Research Chapter

I have just had a book chapter published on practice-led research written called 'Sustaining the Sustainable? Developing a Practice and Problem-led New Media Praxis' in the 2009 Edinburgh University Press book, 'Practice-led Research, Research-led Practice in the Creative Arts'.

The Last Generation Shows at Bathurst Regional Art Gallery

Knowmore Video and Review!

Today I released a new documentary video of the Knowmore (House of Commons) project on this website. Also a full page Review appeared in Realtime about the project called "Animating the Interactive Spin" by Greg Hooper - available online or in paper format.

11:55 AM 27th Mar 2009

Artscience@theinterface 2009

I will be speaking about my ideas and work at: artscience@theinterface 2009 Friday, March 27, 2009 @ the 2009 IDEAS FestivalTime: 3:30pm - 8:00pmLocation: State Library of Qld, Brisbane - Auditorium 2

A symposium, presented as part of the 2009 IDEAS Festival, that will chart the ways in which art and science gravitate towards one another within contemporary culture.

Knowmore Up and Running!

Knowmore (House of Commons) has opened at the State Library of Queensland Brisbane and runs for 3 months - Early reports are that its been a roaring success with the public and the opening/artist talk was well attended.

New Review Out

Latest Shows!

The next leg of the Visions of Australia tour of Intimate Transactions in Mildura (country Victoria) and Frankston Arts Centre (Close to Melbourne, Victoria) is about to kick off. Details have also just been confirmed of the showing of the new project Knowmore at the State Library of Queensland Gallery in February 2009.

12:49 PM 6th Jul 2008

Brisbane and Cairns Festival Shows

Shifting Intimacies will be shown in the Cairns 'On Edge' and Brisbane Festivals this month (July 2008):

Intimate Transactions Opens in China

Intimate Transactions opened simultaneously at the National Art Museum of China and the Beijing Art Museum of the Imperial Palace tonight, 5pm as part of Media Art China's Synthetic Times Exhibition.

11:00 PM 19th May 2008

Intimate Transactions Touring

Intimate Transactions has been awarded a Visions of Australia touring grant (2008-09). It will also be presented in Beijing China during the 2008 Olympics as part of Media Art China 2008 at the National Art Museum of China and the Art Museum of the Imperial Palace. A third node of the work will be located at California State University, USA.

10:50 PM 19th May 2008

Shifting Intimacies Tour Dates Announced

The interactive installation Shifting Intimacies will be premiered in Australia at the On-Edge Festival, KickArts Cairns, Mon 22nd July – Sunday 27th July 2008 and the Judith Wright Centre For Contemporary Art, Brisbane International Arts Festival, Wednesday 30th July - Saturday 2nd August 2008.

10:46 PM 19th May 2008

About to Go Live!

Embodied Media is about to launch its new site - A long time coming and the product of avid documentation practices over many years. I'm proud to say it is Creative Commons licenced under the Attribution, Non-Commercial, No Derivatives Rules. Yeah

10:49 PM 17th May 2008

New Book Available!

A major new book based around the practice-led, interdisciplinary experiences of creating of Intimate Transactions is now available - Intimate Transactions Art, Exhibition and Interaction within Distributed Network Environments. ORDER HERE.

10:51 PM 15th May 2008

Latest Project Details

My next project is a major new interactive installation work: Knowmore (House of Commons) . This is an important new collaboration with artists Chris Barker, Darren Pack and Luke Lickfold.